High Priestess of Climate Change Questions IPCC Inerrancy; Declared Apostate
Industry and military scientists get rewarded when they come up with things that work. Academic scientists tend to get rewarded when they come up with narratives that generate more grant money. Ok, nothing new there. But what happens when an academic scientist suggests that a prevailing academic paradigm be subjected to the same criterion of falsifiability as any other claim to knowledge? Hilarity ensues, though only for those on the outside looking in at the absurdity of simultaneously dismissive and panicky academic internecine warfare.
Though she does not question the idea that man influences climate and may well do so harmfully, Judith Curry, from one of those few remaining institutions (e.g. the Ramblin' Wreck of Georgia Tech) that yet dare to question societal dogma has gathered the courage to question the prevailing groupthink of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and for her trouble has garnered the enmity of the Global Warming clergy and its laity.
Read all about it (free) at Scientific American in "Climate Heretic: Judith Curry Turns on Her Colleagues. Why Can't We Have a Civil Conversation About Climate?"
